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Pepperell man stabbed

By Michael Hartwell, mhartwell@sentinelandenterprise.com

Updated:
03/06/2014 06:34:45 AM EST

LUNENBURG -- A visibly drunk woman was arrested on charges that she stabbed a Pepperell man while he drove her home Friday. Police also said she made obscene remarks and gestures to officers during her arrest.

According to a police report, on Friday shortly after 10:15 p.m., Lunenburg police pulled over a white truck that stopped at a bar just over the Leominster border, where the driver told employees he had been stabbed in the leg, then left when they called police.

The driver was a 58-year-old Pepperell man who told police he was coming to the station to report what happened. Also inside the truck was his alleged assailant, Tamesen J. Goyette, 30, of 259 Cross Road, Lunenburg.

Goyette was arraigned in Fitchburg District Court on Monday on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct. She was released on $1,040 bail.

Her next scheduled court appearance is April 15.

According to the police report, the man had a bloody puncture wound and a cut in his jeans at his thigh. He said he was driving Goyette home after two bars declined to serve her alcohol. Her directions kept him going in circles, and he said she started saying she had been raped before, then accused him of knowing the rapist.

That's when he said she stabbed him with a 2.5-inch folding knife she took from her purse. He said he took her back to the bar to try to find the female friend she had been with.

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He refused medical attention and said he did not want to press charges.

Police say Goyette was immediately hostile when they attempted to talk to her. They placed her in handcuffs, telling her she was not under arrest but that they wanted to make sure she didn't attack them, and she started shouting at them.

Goyette refused to cooperate while being placed in the cruiser. During booking, Goyette allegedly repeatedly called the officers slurs, and made obscene and inappropriate remarks about the officers' children.

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